The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-26

Schneider's in the House for adjournment
at the expiration of the one hundred days
were referred to the committees, and there
does not seem any prospect of the Legis-
islature getting through in that time. On
Friday the House refused to adjourn oyer
Washingion's birthday. At the close of
last weeks session Mackin, of the Sixth
district, ''the richest district in the State"
as he loves to call IL, created quite a rue
tion with the Speaker over Dearden's reso-
luton to get down to work at ten o'clock
daily hereafter. Mackin has all the Irish
fondness for row and If two and half
miles from fight it would be good pre-
sumption of law that he was engaged in it.
Speaker Boyer, who has so far displayed
excellent equipment and poise for the duties
Of the Chair, has with the evident elish of
both sides of the House, shut Mackin off in
his Boston Corbettian proceedings to mon
opolize the attractions of the floor The
statesman from the Sixth frequently rushes
in where angles would fear to tread in mat
ters of legislation, and the Speaker very
naturally desires to curb his wild and fan
ciful career. 1t is said that Mackin fears
this is his last term as Representative, as
the new apportionment will join the Sixth
and Eleventh districts, and that he desires
nothing more than to end his legislative
career in blaze of halcyon and vociferous
glory.
The Dillingsley bill against the Standard
Oil Company, which was recommitted, af-
ter hot personal encounter. to Criswelr s
judiciary committee, has been the means of
bringing all the prominent oil men of the
State to the city, and as consequence the
air has been laden with arguments and
opinions of the independent producers and
reiners on one side and the Standard Oil
| Company people and their attorneys on the
other. The arraignment of the Standard
by the Independent refiners and producers,
as appeared by the production of figures in
the discussion, is a fearful one and any
legislation that would curb the accrescent
powers of so vast monopoly must be salu-
tatory. They charge directly, giving names
and particulars, that % refineries since 1866
have been bought or leased, 81 have been
dismantled and 21 squeezed out by the
Standard Oil Company. In Pittsburg, they
say, there were IS refiners IN 1867. Now
there arc but 3, refining II, 120 barrels
They contend that the refining industry
has been driven out OF Pennsylvania into
New York. In 1868 the total exports oi
petroleum from the United States amount
ed to $3.50, 721 gallons; of this 2G,9TO, ,2S(
gallons, 97.47 per cent, was shipped Easr
from Pittsburg. In 1878 Pittsburg's per
centage had fallen to 1864 per cent. In
1874 New York city's entire refining
capacity was $4,000 barrels a week; this in
creased until 1881 it was 25S, 100 barrels al
of which, except one refinery, was owned
or controlled by the Standard. As tC
Philadelphia the total weekly capacity o
the Standard refineries is 1900 barrels
and of the independent ones 81, 200 barrels
In Pittsburg the business done in 1868 wa.
07-5 pei cent. in Philadelphia in 1868 80 4
per cent. of the export business of petro
} lenm was done; in 1880 only 1G-S per cent
In 1870 Philadelphia handled i.1O1 ,63f
barrels for export out of total production
of 5,240,559 barrels; in 1880 the total pro
duction was 25.7G0, ,2G0 barrels, an increas,
of 500 per cent, and yet the amour
handled for export was 1,0S5, ,91S-15.7ls
barrels less than in 1870. Pennsylvania
formerly refined 97-4 per cent. of all the
oil produced; she now refines 14-4 per cent
If she had retained the business, as sh,
might have done, say these earnest ant
spirited oil men opposing the Standard, sh,
would have saved in 1850 s14,o27,279, al
of which would have been paid out fo
work done and materials furnished by our
own industries. 4n. PAXTON.